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A few days ago NBC interviewed Andrew Cathy, the CEO of the very successful Chick-fil-A restaurant chain.  It was Cathy’s first broadcast interview

This is what NBC’s Today Show and a lot of “mainstream” media chose to focus on…
It was a six-some minutes-long interview.  And a great chunk of it became about whether Chick-fil-A was against homosexuality/lesbianism/transexualism/whatever else is beneath the LGBT umbrella.  Not so much about the company’s awesome food and exceptional service that has won it generations of loyal customers.
It seems that more than a decade and a half later and the LGBT community and their fellow travelers in the legacy media are still stuck on the “Chick-fil-A hates gays” meme.
It was an attempt to ambush Andrew Cathy.  However he was prepared and he didn’t take the bait.  Cathy simply told the reporter “We’re focused on hospitality, serving great-tasting food, and great service.”
Shouldn’t that
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…and you wanna know why?

Because today I just don’t feel like I want to eat chicken.

It has nothing to do at all with the recent statements by the company’s president, Dan Cathy, regarding his beliefs on homosexuality and “gay marriage”. It was a statement of his personal opinion and he’s entitled to have them. Personally, I’m inclined to agree with him, but that’s not the point of this post.

So today has been declared “Let’s Go To Chick-fil-A And Buy Their Food And Show We Support Traditional Families For God And Country Day Hurrah For Us!” or something. It’s in response to the boycott that some “gay rights” groups (I never understood the concept of “gay rights” either: what rights exactly do some homosexuals believe they’re being deprived of? I’ve never seen a “Straights Only” lunch counter in all my years of living in the South of all ...

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